A Moment in Kentucky History: John Howard Carpenter

WEKU | By wendy barnett

Published October 31, 2019 at 5:30 AM EDT

Think History is our daily segment from Kentucky Humanities. Today, Bill Goodman tells us about John Howard Carpenter, of the Halloween movie fame.

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